Antique Fine French Silk and Wool Needlepoint Embroidery Tapestry Chair Back Panel to Make a Pillow Antique chair Both hinge and clasp are

Both hinge and clasp are doing their jobs well and are tight

where many French Revolutionary portraits have been gathered and displayed

and it really only shows with a side-lighted angle

a folio in the lid for important documents and a recessed space that would have held a vanity mirror

floral garland mounted on a solid old growth European oak surround

Antique Fine French Silk and Wool Needlepoint Embroidery Tapestry Chair Back Panel to Make a Pillow Antique chair Both hinge and clasp areThis one is old! I'd date it c. 1780 1830 based on style of needlework and the pattern. Fine embroidery work in wool and silk, it's a salvaged panel from a chair back upholstery, and is excellent to live again as a lushly fringed trimmed out decorator throw pillow. Again, from my stash of best panels collected over decades, all of which I'm trying to part with now, a batch at a time. You'll want to mix match to put together your own decorator dream